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Introduction to Nanotechnology

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Abstract

A biological system can be exceedingly small. Many of the cells are very tiny, but they are very active; they manufacture various substances; they walk around; they wiggle; and they do all kinds of marvelous things – all on a very small scale. Also, they store information. Consider the possibility that we too can make a thing very small which does what we want – that we can manufacture an object that maneuvers at that level.

(From the talk “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, delivered by Richard P. Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, on December 29, 1959.)

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Abbreviations

μTAS:

micro-total analysis systems

AFM:

atomic force microscope/microscopy

DLP:

digital light processing

DMD:

digital micromirror device

GMR:

giant magnetoresistance

MEMS:

microelectromechanical systems

NEMS:

nanoelectromechanical systems

NNI:

National Nanotechnology Initiative

STM:

scanning tunneling microscope/microscopy

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Bhushan, B. (2004). Introduction to Nanotechnology. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29838-X_1

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